Well, the patch I posted won't decrease the number of write requests,although it might reduce the number of read requests if the system istight on memory and there isn't enough space to keep all of the indirectblocks in core at the same time. (If the latter is true, though, thenyour system is probably *really* badly hurting as a result of thesyslogd's fsync() handling.)

I agree that if you have a syslog server which is separate from themachine actually doing the logging (and therefore the syslog server islikely to stay up across whatever problem might cause its clients tocrash and burn), it makes perfectly good sense to disable's syslogd'sbehaviour of prepending a '-' to the filename.

- Ted

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